Mark Vasché, editor of Californian newspaper, the Modesto Bee, writes: "For much of my nearly four decades as a journalist, I worked in the Golden Age of Newspapers - an era when they were the main and, in most communities, the only source of reliable local news... it was a privilege and a pleasure to be part of them. But they're gone.

"Today, I work in the Golden Age of News and Information - a time of almost unlimited access to news, thanks to traditional sources such as papers, TV and radio to the ever-expanding online world." (Via Modesto Bee)